Joseph Hemphill

Joseph Hemphill (7 January 1770-29 May 1842) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-PA 3) from 4 March 1801 to 3 March 1803 (succeeding Richard Thomas), from PA-1 from 4 March 1819 to 3 March 1823 (preceding Samuel Breck), from PA-2 from 4 March 1823 to 1826 (preceding Thomas Kittera), and from PA-3 from 4 March 1829 to 3 March 1831 (succeeding Joel Barlow Sutherland and preceding John Goddard Watmough).

Biography
Joseph Hemphill was born in Thornbury Township, Pennsylvania in 1770, and he became a lawyer in West Chester in 1793. He went on to serve in the State House from 1797 to 1800, in 1805, and from 1831 to 1832 and in the US House of Representatives from 1801 to 1803, from 1819 to 1826, and from 1829 to 1831. Late in his career, he became a Jacksonian Federalist, and he died in 1842.